Ashley Giles
Ashley Giles
Ashley Fraser Giles MBEis an English retired cricketer. Giles played the entirety of his 14-year first-class career at Warwickshire County Cricket Club. He played 54 Test matches and 62 One Day Internationals for England before being forced to retire due to a recurring hip injury...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth19 March 1973
course days hope left regret test three
Of course I hope they live to regret it, but there is three days left in this Test match.
body couple hip knew run telling tried weeks
We tried to run a couple of weeks ago and the hip didn't like it. The body has a way of telling you it is not ready. We knew then we were struggling.
bit ready start surprised
We were ready to start and we were a little bit surprised and shocked,
again bit confident happy last operation saw specialist
There's still a bit of soreness from the operation but I saw the specialist again last week, he's happy with my rehabilitation and I am confident of making it.
happened hopefully importance realise
I don't think we realise the importance of what's happened yet, but hopefully we will in two weeks' time,
bit surgeon
But when the surgeon went in there was more there than we expected, there was a bit of arthritis.
became bowling damage discovered expected likely line naturally operation surgeon tight time weeks
Naturally I'm very disappointed. But a tight time line became even tighter once the surgeon discovered more damage than was expected and to be back bowling 10 weeks after the operation was probably always likely to be optimistic.
bowl couple good last tricky year
It's one of those ones you want to bowl every ball. I think I bowled a couple last year that were pretty good at tricky times.
dressing happening quiet room sort
Everyone is on edge, the dressing room is very quiet and it is a 'this can't be happening to us' sort of scenario.
bit bowling control dressing room sitting situation worse
It's a lot worse sitting in the dressing room than it is out in the middle. Once you're out there you feel you're a little bit in control of the situation but if Shane Warne's bowling like that it's a little bit tricky.
bit fantastic hopefully
It's fantastic for the game, hopefully we have done a lot for it already and hopefully we can do a bit more yet.
good hot indians players tough
It will be very hot and humid and the Indians are very good players of spin. It's going to be a tough trip.
anyone atmosphere basically county cricket disrespect found played players quite tricky
It's a completely different atmosphere to '98. It's much more professional and we are much more together. I found it quite tricky in '98. No disrespect to anyone in that side, because players made me feel welcome, but it was very disjointed. Now we are basically another county team. We know each other that well. We've played that much cricket together.
hands firsts ashes
We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]